Substance becomes subject by self-negating into its own content
Evidence
Elevated into its speculative truth, the relation between subject and predicates is characterized by ‘plasticity’. Within the process of selfdetermination, the universal (the substance) and particular (the accidents as something independent) give form to each other through a dynamic like that at play in the ‘plastic individualities’. The process of self-determination is the unfolding of the substance-subject. In the process, substance withdraws from itself in order to enter into the particularity of its content. Through this movement of self-negation substance will posit itself as subject. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 240
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘substance withdraws into its content and posits itself as subject’ move connects directly to how plasticity grounds the reader’s concept of a malleable, self-forming brain. — connects to: The For-itself is not a substance but the nihilation of a particular In-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1432; The old subject survives as mere for-itself after its substance is dissolved — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 9; Inherited substance without individual creativity decays into empty formalism — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 514 (+10 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- The for-itself constitutes itself through an original negation of the thing
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 571 - The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence
#corroborates(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445 - Content’s determinateness is self-given, not externally attached, in Hegel
#expands(0.78) - Inherited substance without individual creativity decays into empty formalism
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 514 - Negation-by-accumulation lets writing undo its own form yet still congeal
#exemplifies(0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 176 - The self flees each negation toward a complementary negation whose fusion reveals the in-itself
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